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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1988 / Served to 1996

Vincent R. Balletta Jr.

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Vincent R. Balletta Jr. was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–1996
Tenure: 1988–1996 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Balletta authored 40 published opinions for the court (1988–1996), plus 29 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Thomassen v. J & K Diner, Inc. (150 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 81 of these were attributed to Balletta by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1989	Thomassen v. J & K Diner, Inc.· Dissent†	152 A.D.2d 421	150
1995	Young v. Young†	212 A.D.2d 114	135
1989	Leibowitz v. Bank Leumi Trust Co.†	152 A.D.2d 169	98
1989	Weisenthal v. Pickman· Dissent†	153 A.D.2d 849	71
1992	Krebsbach v. Gallagher†	181 A.D.2d 363	68
1992	Ferris v. County of Suffolk†	174 A.D.2d 70	48
1989	Rosenberg v. Rosenberg· Concurrence†	155 A.D.2d 428	48
1993	Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Steiner· Dissent†	199 A.D.2d 507	47
1991	People v. Russell†	165 A.D.2d 327	46
1990	Lee v. City of New York†	162 A.D.2d 34	45
1995	Matarrese v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.†	215 A.D.2d 7	42
1992	Piedra v. Vanover†	174 A.D.2d 191	42
1992	People v. Burk†	181 A.D.2d 74	39
1993	Radford v. Propper†	190 A.D.2d 93	37
1989	Otto v. Otto†	150 A.D.2d 57	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 81 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the New York Appellate Division reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Vincent R. Balletta Jr. on?: Vincent R. Balletta Jr. was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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8 years on the New York Appellate Division. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).